ETF Analysis & Opinion

In December of 2007, I offered readers insight into a predictive model for recessions. Shortly thereafter, in the first week of January 2008, Investor’s Business Daily highlighted my five-point...

The research team, at The Technical Trades has been calling this market move quite accurately. We made predictions on September 17, 2018, which called for a -5~8% downside market rotation, followed by...

Home builder ETF (NYSE:XHB) has sent leading signals to the broad market since the highs in 2007 and another very important signal could be sent by what the home builders do at current prices. XHB...

In spite of global central-bank purchases, equities in the broker/dealer index (XBD) remain penned in by their descending trendline. I am very excited by Tom’s development, particularly since...

Despite the weak day on Wall Street, we certainly had a good trading day. A lot of stocks continue to move, despite the pullback in the market. That’s a good sign we’re in the right stocks...

Current Position Of The SPX Market Long-term trend – Correcting within the very long-term bull market trend. Intermediate trend – A bearish correction has started which could retrace as...

SummaryWhile the shutdown is over, some economic damage occurred. Markit Economics' EU PMIs showed more weakness. The markets ended the week continuing their consolidation. The shutdown is over - at...

Stocks rallied on January 25 with the S&P 500 rising by over 80 basis points to 2,664. The index continues to work its way higher, recouping the losses from the selloff earlier this week. The rise...

This one is special for me. I started my work life many moons ago as a participant with the Semi sector [circa 1983-1993], painfully learning first hand how violent the cyclical turns can be. Dialing...

SummaryThe more defensive tone of the last few months has given way to a more bullish orientation. Several defensive sectors that were leading are now weaker. I look at the newly advancing sectors...

Last week we discussed the difference between a rally and bull market. Gold stocks have been in a rally.That rally is now over as gold stocks peaked at their 400-day moving averages days ago and...

Diversified emerging markets ETFs are supposed to be diversified, but many of these funds feature some concentration risk, particularly at the geographic level.For example, two of the category’s...

Below are the nine S&P 500 sector ETFs and their performance for the 14 days heading into the December 24th market bottom, and then their performance for the 14 days since. As you can see, the...

Financial earnings season is in full swing, with traders today cheering quarterly results from big-cap bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). With earnings from Morgan Stanley (NYSE:NYSE:MS) and American...